Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor
> > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed?
>
> It's a simple typo. Change deb file:///home... to deb file://home...
No, the three slashes are in fact correct. Turns out you have to write
the Release files by hand. (I have to say, I do wish this part of the
process were documented better---if not necessarily in the apt-move
manpage, then at least in /usr/share/doc/apt-move. It looks like there
are already some bug reports which address this, though.)
So, I created the following release files
./dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release
./dists/woody/contrib/binary-i386/Release
./dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/Release
./dists/woody/non-US/contrib/binary-i386/Release
./dists/woody/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Release
./dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Release
based on the following model (with different Component values as
appropriate):
Archive: testing
Component: main
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Architecture: i386
Things are fine now; apt-get and dselect see the package files in my
local mirror. (I found found this after a little bit more careful
digging through the debian-user archives.)
> BTW when I reply to your message only part of it shows up in my
> mailer. Not sure if that is my problem or yours.
I doubt this is a problem; it's probably just the way KMail works. I
included the sources.list and apt-move.conf files as MIME attachments
(text/plain); a lot of mailers tend to display that MIME type inline but
not include it in replies. I know VM works that way, ISTR that
Netscape's mailer does also.
Thanks,
Richard
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